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Meenakshi Dhar has worked for over 25 years as international civil servant for the Commonwealth, at the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA). She joined the CPA in 1998 as an Assistant Director and worked most recently as the Director of Programs until December 2017. She has worked with a wide range of legislatures across all nine-regions of the Commonwealth and is now working as a Parliamentary consultant. She has recently worked on the CPA Benchmarks for Democratic Legislatures programme under the UK Government’s ‘Commonwealth Partnership for Democracy Programme’, developed a proposal for a new online parliamentary staff development course for Commonwealth legislatures, and conducted a retrospective study of ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ’s professional development programs for Parliamentarians, Presiding Officers and Parliamentary Staff (2012-2021).

Meenakshi Dhar has sat as a Trustee of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative and is presently a Trustee of the Ramphal Institute. She attended the London School of Economics and holds a Bsc (Econ.) International Relations and a MA in Public Administration.